The Origin of Laws, Arts, And Sciences : And Their Progress Among the Most Ancient of Nations 3
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^ Dion CafTui.s hill. Rom. 1. 57. r. .u- V 7. of 1 j6 Of $rl^nc€s, ■ Book III.- of aftronomy, It ib certain, that they then knew but a very fmall number of the conflellations ^ ; and it was the fame with regard to the planets. Their knowledge in this article was reduced to Venus. This is the only planet made mention of in Homer and in Hefiod. It may perhaps be faid, that the filence of thefe two poets upon Mars, Jupiter, &c. is no proof, that in their times thefe planets were unknown i...n Greece; and we might admit of this anfwer, were we not elfewhere acquainted with the ignorance of the Greeks upon this fubje6t.
Bnt it is a fact not to be doubted. Democritus, by the ac- count of Seneca, fufpeded that there were many wan- dering ftars ; but he did not venture to determine either the number or the courfe of them; for, adds Seneca, the Greeks did not yet know, that there were five pla- nets i^. Eudoxus was the firjflwho brought from Egypt into Greece the knowledge of thefe ftars "".
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^ Dion CafTui.s hill. Rom. 1. 57. r. .u- V 7. of 1 j6 Of $rl^nc€s, ■ Book III.- of aftronomy, It ib certain, that they then knew but a very fmall number of the conflellations ^ ; and it was the fame with regard to the planets. Their knowledge in this article was reduced to Venus. This is the only planet made mention of in Homer and in Hefiod. It may perhaps be faid, that the filence of thefe two poets upon Mars, Jupiter, &c. is no proof, that in their times thefe planets were unknown i...n Greece; and we might admit of this anfwer, were we not elfewhere acquainted with the ignorance of the Greeks upon this fubje6t.
Bnt it is a fact not to be doubted. Democritus, by the ac- count of Seneca, fufpeded that there were many wan- dering ftars ; but he did not venture to determine either the number or the courfe of them; for, adds Seneca, the Greeks did not yet know, that there were five pla- nets i^. Eudoxus was the firjflwho brought from Egypt into Greece the knowledge of thefe ftars "".
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